part of part of in lateral side of contributes to morphology of Homo sapiens nose nasal bone http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Illu_facial_bones.jpg Paired bone of intramembranous origin that roofs the olfactory capsule.[AAO] GAID:222 One of two small oblong bones, varying in size and form in different individuals; they are placed side by side at the middle and upper part of the face, and form, by their junction, 'the bridge' of the nose[WP]. Paired dermal bones, likened to a bone tube, positioned lateral to the supraethmoid. Nasal bones are transversed by the anterior most part of the supraorbital canals and bear one neuromast foramen in zebrafish[ZFA]. FMA:52745 ZFA:0000365 os nasale EMAPA:19202 AAO:0000312 Paired dermal bones, likened to a bone tube, positioned lateral to the supraethmoid. Nasal bones are transversed by the anterior most part of the supraorbital canals and bear one neuromast foramen in zebrafish Cubbage and Mabee, 1996.[TAO] nasal bones Synonym adnasal used in Weitzman 1960, and synonym discussed in Vari 1995.[TAO] MESH:D009295 relationship loss: overlaps mesethmoid-nasal joint (TAO:0001677)[TAO] UMLS:C0027422 NCIT:C33157 In primitive bony fish and tetrapods, the nasal bones are the most anterior of a set of four paired bones forming the roof of the skull, being followed in sequence by the frontals, the parietals, and the postparietals. Their form in living species is highly variable, depending on the shape of the head, but they generally form the roof of the snout or beak, running from the nostrils to a position short of the orbits. In most animals, they are generally therefore proportionally larger than in humans or great apes, because of the shortened faces of the latter. Turtles, unusually, lack nasal bones, with the prefrontal bones of the orbit reaching all the way to the nostrils (ISBN 0-03-910284-X) TAO:0000365 UBERON:0001681 SCTID:181801008 relationship loss: part_of braincase and otic capsule skeleton (AAO:0000052)[AAO] MA:0001494 VHOG:0001370 Wikipedia:Nasal_bone nasals intramembranous bone dermatocranium facial bone dermal bone flat bone facial skeleton lateral structure